Table of Contents

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics

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Preface

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Part I : Introduction

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On Language, Change, and Language Change – Or, Of History, Linguistics,
and Historical Linguistics

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Part II : Methods for Studying Language Change

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1. The Comparative Method

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2. On the Limits of the Comparative Method

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3. Internal Reconstruction

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4. How to Show Languages are Related: Methods for Distant Genetic
Relationship

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5. Diversity and Stability in Language

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Part III : Phonological Change

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6. The Phonological Basis of Sound Change

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7. Neogrammarian Sound Change

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8. Variationist Approaches to Phonological Change

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9. “Phonologization” as the Start of Dephoneticization – Or, On Sound Change
and its Aftermath: Of Extension, Generalization, Lexicalization, and
Morphologization

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Part IV : Morphological and Lexical Change

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10. Analogy: The Warp and Woof of Cognition

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11. Analogical Change

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12. Naturalness and Morphological Change

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13. Morphologization from Syntax

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Part V : Syntactic Change

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14. Grammatical Approaches to Syntactic Change

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15. Variationist Approaches to Syntactic Change

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16. Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change

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17. Functional Perspectives on Syntactic Change

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Part VI : Pragmatico-Semantic Change

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18. Grammaticalization

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19. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency

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20. Constructions in Grammaticalization

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21. An Approach to Semantic Change

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Part VII : Explaining Linguistic Change

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22. Phonetics and Historical Phonology

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23. Contact as a Source of Language Change

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24. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion

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25. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change

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Bibliography